There are not many blogs out there dedicated to cooking on a pellet smoker. I have been cooking, grilling & smoking over 35 yrs now. I recently bought a Traeger Lil Tex Elite pellet smoker & have cooked on it over six yrs. now. I would like to share recipes & info I have gained from cooking on it.
Update 2014: I have plenty of recipes here for the pellet smoker so I am now including other outdoor cooking and some of my indoor cooking too.

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Tuesday, April 4, 2017

Baby Green Lima Beans, Ham Hock and Bacon

Apr 04 2017

I am getting behind in my posts. I did want to post this;
one of my favorite beans to cook with a ham hock and some bacon. I can’t get
them around here so I order the Camellia brand from Amazon. I would follow Mary’s
recipe from Deep South Dish. I cut the recipe in half and just used a half
pound of the beans I soaked overnight.

I had a nice meaty ham hock from my butcher I did for 30
minutes covered with water in my Instant Pot and used the broth to cook the
beans. I had 5 slices of bacon I cooked part way on my smoker to cut down on
the fat. I finished the bacon and some onions in a pot and then added the
beans, broth and seasonings. I simmered them about 2 hours with the lid off and
added broth when needed. I then simmered them with the lid on for an hour.

My wife and DIL had been away for the day to visit our
daughter in Bowling Green where the DIL’s Mother and Aunt met them for lunch
and a craft show. My wife ate some other left overs while I had a nice bowl of
the beans with crackers and butter. Tasted great! I just baked a corn bread and
will have that with the beans tonight for supper.

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I started cooking when our children were in highschool & my wife worked.I was layed off during the summer & just kinda took over the kitchen & my wife does most all the cleanup. We are both retired now. I am a recipe hound, love to try new things. I suppose my cooking methods have evolved from Mid West Ohio, Southern, Soul, Cajun, Creole, & German, all of which I love.